[Wocky] Meeting Notes: Jabber - Dec. 28. 2005

[Paul B. Hill]

>A better solution may be:
>- jabber applet - because it is written in java could not have  
>Kerberos support - need to use passwork over ssl
>Greg will set up and test to see if this is a viable solution.  We  
>will need to determine how to introduce this. (I would suggest asking  
>one of the interested groups to be a tester)

Actually Java applets can use Kerberos and GSS. GSS/Kerberos support was
first added in 1.3 although there were a number of issues in the older
implementations. SASL support was first added in 1.4. There was a big
improvement from JDK 1.4 to 1.5. It is already possible to create a single
sign-on Java applet when the ticket cache is file based when using 1.5. With
1.6, a number of improvements are being made. On Windows Vista with 1.6 and
KfW installed the ability to have single sign-on while using the in memory
ticket cache will be possible. 


Paul